Example of Threat-Centric Security

January 30th, 2010 admin

In my last post I mentioned the need to take threat-centric approaches to advanced persistent threat . No sooner than I had posted those thoughts do I read this: Beijing ’strongly indignant’ about U.S.-Taiwan arms sale The Obama administration announced the sale Friday of $6 billion worth of Patriot anti-missile systems, helicopters, mine-sweeping ships and communications equipment to Taiwan in a long-expected move that…


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